Is engineering the place to be or are we equally at risk with burger-flipping English majors? I have never seen my accountant look so terrified. As I write this on the next-to-last day of September Congress has reached general agreement on a bail-out designed, they say, to stave off a financial crisis whose impact might result in a spike in unemployment. I remain baffled and can't discern where the $700B number came from (why not $200B? Or $900B?). And I am always skeptical of economists. The Dismal Science's predictive powers have long been notoriously bad. But they certainly understand all of these odd financial instruments far better than I do. If the economy is on the brink of collapse, what does that mean for engineering jobs? A September 5 AP story suggests that tech is the place to be. One quote: "Payrolls of computer...
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